When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.

There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.

There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

I must protest that I would never seek foreign conflicts just to go over domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous. I was speaking of conflicts that we could not avoid, even though we do not seek them.

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer